Lorenzo D’angelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 93117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo D’angelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | D’angelo |
| SIGNATURE | D’ANGELO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8731-2714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. 2022. By Robyn d’Avignon
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. 2022. By Robyn d’Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 304pp. $27.95 (paperback), $104.95 (hardcover)
Working for the stomach: Sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda
In the mountainous areas of south-western Uganda, peasant miners are characterized as people who 'work for the stomach' and pursue an unsustainable activity: extracting alluvial gold with artisanal technology. After days of hard work in the mines, they allegedly squander their money on alcohol and sex. A common way of disapproving of these miners' behaviour is to compare them to lake fishers (ababariya). By focusing on the ababariya narrative as …
Operation Parasite: Diamonds, smallpox, and mass expulsions of strangers in colonial Sierra Leone
In 1956, the British colonial administrators in Sierra Leone organized an operation of mass expulsion of migrants that aimed to solve the problems of health and security in the country’s diamond mining areas: Operation Parasite. This article examines how colonizers created artificial categories of “strangers” to expel people who were legally designated “undesirable subjects,” as well as how the health conditions of those living in the mining vill…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people's lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold r…
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
Alusine Jalloh, Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
God's Gifts: Destiny, Poverty, and Temporality in the Mines of Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, many artisanal miners share the view that every human act and every event is the realisation of an inscrutable divine plan. Even though notions of fate and destiny are part of the vocabulary of Krio, the country's lingua franca, miners prefer to use expressions that evoke God and stress His immanent presence and influence in their everyday lives. In order to understand the religious vocabulary of contingency and the cosmology und…
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
The Sierra Leone rare earth minerals landscape: An old or new frontier
The art of governing contingency: Rethinking the colonial history of diamond mining in Sierra Leone
This article briefly outlines the history of the colonial diamond industry of Sierra Leone from 1930 to 1961, highlighting its contingent aspects and the bonds guiding the decisions and actions taken by local social actors in different contexts and at different times. By drawing on colonial documents and memoirs of colonial officers, it shows how the colonial government of Sierra Leone and the mining company that exercised a monopoly on diamond e…
Diamond mining is a chain'. Luck, blessing, and gambling in Sierra Leone's artisanal mines
Many mining and development experts consider artisanal diamond mining to be a form of gambling. In Sierra Leone's mining areas, this comparison also recurs occasionally in miners’ discourses. However, the idea that mining is like gambling deserves critical scrutiny as it allows only a limited, stereotypical representation of this work. This article considers mining as a complex combination of material production and imaginaries oriented by a spec…
Diamonds and development: A critical analysis of stereotypes about mineworkers in Sierra Leone
In the last decade, the Sierra Leone's diamond mines have been the focus of an intense debate among analysts and experts of the development. Two main interrelated issues have been at stake in this debate: first, to understand the economic and political reasons that had supported the civil war from 1991 to 2002 and, second, to understand how to convert a potential 'conflict commodity' in a resource for peace and prosperity. In this paper, I intend…
Who Owns the Diamonds? The Occult Eco-Nomy of Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone
Much of the literature on Sierra Leonean diamonds focuses on the role that this mineral resource played in the recent civil conflict (1991-2002). However, the political-economic perspective that is common to these analyses has lost sight of the main actors in this social reality. What do miners think of diamonds? Like their Malagasy colleagues engaged in the search for sapphires, the Sierra Leonean diamond miners often maintain that they do not k…
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
Who Owns the Diamonds? The Occult Eco-Nomy of Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone
Much of the literature on Sierra Leonean diamonds focuses on the role that this mineral resource played in the recent civil conflict (1991-2002). However, the political-economic perspective that is common to these analyses has lost sight of the main actors in this social reality. What do miners think of diamonds? Like their Malagasy colleagues engaged in the search for sapphires, the Sierra Leonean diamond miners often maintain that they do not k…
Diamond mining is a chain'. Luck, blessing, and gambling in Sierra Leone's artisanal mines
Many mining and development experts consider artisanal diamond mining to be a form of gambling. In Sierra Leone's mining areas, this comparison also recurs occasionally in miners’ discourses. However, the idea that mining is like gambling deserves critical scrutiny as it allows only a limited, stereotypical representation of this work. This article considers mining as a complex combination of material production and imaginaries oriented by a spec…
God's Gifts: Destiny, Poverty, and Temporality in the Mines of Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, many artisanal miners share the view that every human act and every event is the realisation of an inscrutable divine plan. Even though notions of fate and destiny are part of the vocabulary of Krio, the country's lingua franca, miners prefer to use expressions that evoke God and stress His immanent presence and influence in their everyday lives. In order to understand the religious vocabulary of contingency and the cosmology und…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people's lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold r…
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
The art of governing contingency: Rethinking the colonial history of diamond mining in Sierra Leone
This article briefly outlines the history of the colonial diamond industry of Sierra Leone from 1930 to 1961, highlighting its contingent aspects and the bonds guiding the decisions and actions taken by local social actors in different contexts and at different times. By drawing on colonial documents and memoirs of colonial officers, it shows how the colonial government of Sierra Leone and the mining company that exercised a monopoly on diamond e…
Who Owns the Diamonds? The Occult Eco-Nomy of Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone
Much of the literature on Sierra Leonean diamonds focuses on the role that this mineral resource played in the recent civil conflict (1991-2002). However, the political-economic perspective that is common to these analyses has lost sight of the main actors in this social reality. What do miners think of diamonds? Like their Malagasy colleagues engaged in the search for sapphires, the Sierra Leonean diamond miners often maintain that they do not k…
Diamond mining is a chain'. Luck, blessing, and gambling in Sierra Leone's artisanal mines
Many mining and development experts consider artisanal diamond mining to be a form of gambling. In Sierra Leone's mining areas, this comparison also recurs occasionally in miners’ discourses. However, the idea that mining is like gambling deserves critical scrutiny as it allows only a limited, stereotypical representation of this work. This article considers mining as a complex combination of material production and imaginaries oriented by a spec…
Diamonds and development: A critical analysis of stereotypes about mineworkers in Sierra Leone
In the last decade, the Sierra Leone's diamond mines have been the focus of an intense debate among analysts and experts of the development. Two main interrelated issues have been at stake in this debate: first, to understand the economic and political reasons that had supported the civil war from 1991 to 2002 and, second, to understand how to convert a potential 'conflict commodity' in a resource for peace and prosperity. In this paper, I intend…
The art of governing contingency: Rethinking the colonial history of diamond mining in Sierra Leone
This article briefly outlines the history of the colonial diamond industry of Sierra Leone from 1930 to 1961, highlighting its contingent aspects and the bonds guiding the decisions and actions taken by local social actors in different contexts and at different times. By drawing on colonial documents and memoirs of colonial officers, it shows how the colonial government of Sierra Leone and the mining company that exercised a monopoly on diamond e…
The Sierra Leone rare earth minerals landscape: An old or new frontier
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
God's Gifts: Destiny, Poverty, and Temporality in the Mines of Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, many artisanal miners share the view that every human act and every event is the realisation of an inscrutable divine plan. Even though notions of fate and destiny are part of the vocabulary of Krio, the country's lingua franca, miners prefer to use expressions that evoke God and stress His immanent presence and influence in their everyday lives. In order to understand the religious vocabulary of contingency and the cosmology und…
Alusine Jalloh, Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
Operation Parasite: Diamonds, smallpox, and mass expulsions of strangers in colonial Sierra Leone
In 1956, the British colonial administrators in Sierra Leone organized an operation of mass expulsion of migrants that aimed to solve the problems of health and security in the country’s diamond mining areas: Operation Parasite. This article examines how colonizers created artificial categories of “strangers” to expel people who were legally designated “undesirable subjects,” as well as how the health conditions of those living in the mining vill…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people's lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold r…
Working for the stomach: Sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda
In the mountainous areas of south-western Uganda, peasant miners are characterized as people who 'work for the stomach' and pursue an unsustainable activity: extracting alluvial gold with artisanal technology. After days of hard work in the mines, they allegedly squander their money on alcohol and sex. A common way of disapproving of these miners' behaviour is to compare them to lake fishers (ababariya). By focusing on the ababariya narrative as …
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. 2022. By Robyn d’Avignon
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa. 2022. By Robyn d’Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 304pp. $27.95 (paperback), $104.95 (hardcover)
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Mining and Resource Management (9 works) · Sierra leone (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)